jaaake
@jaaake@lemmy.world
- Comment on This seems like a bad long-term strategy 1 day ago:
Irresponsible companies are the result of irresponsible consumers.
The fuck does this mean? I can promise you that there are plenty of terrible decisions that have been made that have nothing to do with consumers and everything to do with shareholder value.
- Comment on Bring it back 3 days ago:
Not trolling, just ignorant on most related sciences.
Honestly, that much continental drift (Pangea to modern geography) seems so unbelievable to me. For some reason it’s easier to wrap my head around the globe expanding from a roughly Pangea sized sphere and the cracks between the continental shelves filling with water as the sphere got bigger.
I feel like to someone who is familiar with this science, this probably sounds like me saying “Yeah, but a flat earth just makes more sense.”
- Comment on Bring it back 3 days ago:
Every time I see Pangea, I have so same thought. Before I say it, I should preface that I know nothing about plate tectonics or geology or planetary physics or any other related science.
Are we sure that’s how it was? I mean the whole one continent and the rest of the globe is ocean. Is there a chance that in addition to the super continent, the planet was also way smaller? Like maybe that continent wrapped around the majority of a smaller sphere instead of just one clump on one side of the current size of the sphere.
- Comment on "Don't unionize, just get a better job." When you unionize, you ARE getting a better job. 1 week ago:
I assume the “we were late to lunch” and “we wrapped late” means “the people running things were behind schedule, which required us to stay longer”
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 2 weeks ago:
This is default in most modern games.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 weeks ago:
I once signed an apartment rental agreement that had a waterbed addendum, specifically banning their usage.
- Comment on Bean there, done that. 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate it even more after watching the BTS that came out the following week.
- Comment on Bean there, done that. 3 weeks ago:
That episode might be my favorite of all time.
- Comment on Vegeta 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure this is photoshopped, unless they got some ink removed around her eyeliner/shadow.
- Comment on Lomg Sleeve T-Shirt 5 weeks ago:
Only if it was a thermal. This is nonsense poserism.
- Comment on The land before time 5 weeks ago:
That’s their literal business model.
- Comment on The land before time 5 weeks ago:
I love the association that younger generations have with paper maps is pirates. Literally everyone used maps, they had racks of them at gas stations. And yet, now they’re legendary items that only exist with Xs that mark the location of treasure.
Also, I cannot explain my excitement the first time I cut a human out of the pizza ordering pipeline. With zero regard for the employment impact, all I could think about was never getting the wrong kind of pizza (or it it going to the wrong house and never showing up) again. No longer was there a risk of being misheard or someone else making a mistake entering the order info for your address or a half sausage and onion, half pepperoni jalapeño pizza. Everyone around me thought ordering your pizza through an internet website was the nerdiest thing. Most of them didn’t know it was an option and even after my explanation, they preferred to call, wait your turn on hold, repeat your house number, spell out your street name, give a cross street and explain which half of the pizza was your parents toppings and which half was the kids. People just couldn’t believe that you could type something into a computer at your house and then a pizza would show up, without the assurance of a person’s voice confirming they’d received your order and that they will cook exactly what you requested and bring it to you.
- Comment on Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership" 1 month ago:
This is all MSFT spin.
The studios mentioned don’t all have enough funding to continue to be operational at their current burn rates. Those studios will be doing their own layoffs or may not survive at all.
Those studios account for under 30% of the 1600 jobs that MSFT is removing from their payroll today. As the day goes on there will be news that breaks of other studios under their banner that have layoffs which contribute to the total mentioned. It’s likely that their individual stories will be lost under this initial announcement.
- Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel? 1 month ago:
During heavy rainfall, intersections would become lakes in the center, where most traffic is going straight, at higher speed than turning, and nearest to opposing traffic.
The drainage needs to go into something hollow, having a hollow space beneath the part of the road that needs to support the most weight of vehicles means needing to create more load bearing hollow spaces than would otherwise be necessary.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Whiskey will destroy this cup in tens of minutes. I’ve done science on it.
- Comment on Sonic Game Recomendation? 1 month ago:
They just released a physical Sonic Pinball game. Shockingly, it’s based on Generations.
Looks cool, though:
- Comment on What is Marvel doing? 1 month ago:
This feels like a Mandela Effect for Guardian:
- Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside. 2 months ago:
what if we took both teams and put them in a third arena…
There was a Korean reality show that kind of did this:
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 2 months ago:
LOW-ER DECKS! LOW-ER DECKS! LOW-ER DECKS!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I miss the days when the only things identifiable as memes required text drawn in all caps white Impact font with black outlines, over literally any image.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I have the same question. Is this how my dad feels when he sees an aftermarket part on a classic car?
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- Comment on ShitpostID: 281172951 3 months ago:
Thank you, that massively helps. Without this context it appears to be a generalization, not one specific individual.
- Comment on ShitpostID: 281172951 3 months ago:
The accuracy is the flag, uniform, and the quote.
Basically everything but the head.
The antisemetic is the payot, yarmulke, and the implication that the person is an idiot from how the face is drawn. The religious aspects of the headwear and hair styling are depictions that are specific to Judaism, not Israel. The way the head is drawn turns the entire image from a valid complaint about genocide and colonizing into a minstrel poster.
- Comment on Interesting park sculpture 4 months ago:
I think you’re thinking of Niki de Saint Phalle, who does a lot of sculpture covered in mosaic and has installations at several places in San Diego (including Balboa Park). AFAIK, she’s never done anything with this subject matter or level of realism (her stuff is usually stylized). Also, the trees in the background don’t look native to San Diego.
- Comment on It didn't always exist. But it's coming soon. 4 months ago:
I’ve still got some invites if anyone needs them.
- Comment on Did you do this at your highschool? 4 months ago:
Two car related pranks:
We lived near a mall with a giant parking lot and cars were always driving really slow while not looking where they were going. We were dumb kids who learned how to take a spill without hurting ourselves from thousands of hours practicing skate tricks. If we were walking through the parking lot and noticed that a driver hadn’t looked in our direction at all, we would roll across the hood of their car and either off the same or opposite side (never the front). People freaked the fuck out and often offered us money. We thought we were doing a public service by teaching them to pay attention by scaring the shit out of them.
We would get the biggest soda cup from 7-11 and instead of filling it with soda, we would put some rare earth magnets inside it and slap in on the roof of our car. That bitch wasn’t going anywhere. People would wave at us and try to get our attention, we’d just smile and wave back. They’d shout and point up and we’d shrug and point at our ears like we couldn’t hear them. This mostly happened at stoplights. While driving, people were usually trying to work out the physics of it not moving. We took it on the highway a few times and thought the cup would tear itself apart, but it didn’t even crack. At that speed, folks caught on real quick and we saw a few bust up laughing.
- Comment on The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games 5 months ago:
This article is sensationalizing a non-issue. It reads like the author went to the convention with the story already written and then tried (and failed) to find people that supported the premise.
As someone who attended GDC for the full week this year, I can tell you that not a single conversation I had or panel I attended discussed the RAM shortage. I’m sure this topic arose in some circles, especially anything related to the timing or cost of next gen hardware. As a professional AAA game designer of 25 years and an occasional game director, this does not affect the way that the games themselves are made. Games on consoles already have their limitations, games on PC should always be (but not always are) optimized to work across a broad spectrum of hardware configurations, with the minimum spec being the lowest system possible without sacrificing playability.
Even people interviewed in the article are saying the same thing:
“Does this affect us? No,” Subotnick said. “We’re making games on as many platforms as we can to delight consumers. Could it impact us? Sure. If there’s less devices for people to get their hands on, then we potentially have less consumers to sell to. But right now, I’d argue that there are plenty of consumers with plenty of devices for us to sell these games to. Where it could impact us is, sure, we will have to make decisions around next-gen platforms when they tell us that it’s time to bring content to them. And if they are threatened to have a total addressable market that is viable from a business standpoint, sure that’s a business challenge. But right now all I’d be doing is speculating on a bunch of hypotheticals.”
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 5 months ago:
I’ve never had tuna salad with avocado, and now I really want to try it. Thanks for this!
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 5 months ago:
They also have a video that is my favorite way to explain how colorblindness affects me: